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Spotlight on Historical Five Points!

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Robert DeFalco Realty

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Spotlight on Historical Five Points!

For seventy years, Five Points in Manhattan was an international symbol of poverty and unrest – but these days, the former Five Points is covered in part by large city, state and federal administration buildings and courthouses known collectively Civic Center, as well as Columbus Park, Collect Pond Park and Foley Square and various facilities of the New York City Department of Corrections around lower Centre Street. Interestingly, the corrections facilities provide the most historic touchstone to Five Points’ past; the infamous Tombs Prison, where many criminals were incarcerated and many executed, stood near the site of the current city prison.  In Chinatown – where the northeast neighborhoods of Five Points once stretched - many tenement buildings still exist, dating from the late 19th century.

In its day, Five Points saw riots, poverty, disease and crime run rampant. The mayhem was the inspiration behind the movie “Gangs of New York,” about crime bosses and the Draft Riots of 1863.

Social reform and religious groups, including a Methodist charity group called Home Mission, took it upon themselves to clean up the Five Points neighborhood over the years.

 

 

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Comments (2)

Lise Howe
Keller Williams Capital Properties - Washington, DC
Assoc. Broker in DC, MD, VA and attorney in DC

I love this post. The history of New York City is so fascinating to read about. It really is the evolution of America!

Aug 21, 2015 10:05 PM
Chris and Dick Dovorany
Homes for Sale in Naples, Bonita Springs and Estero, Florida - Naples, FL
Broker/Associate at Premiere Plus Realty

They clean it up and it becomes the place to be for half a century then the cycle starts all over again.

Aug 21, 2015 10:45 PM